CLEVELAND, Ohio -- A bullet that hit a 4-year-old boy as his mother drove on Interstate 90 near Dead Man's Curve did not penetrate his brain, Cleveland police said.

The boy is out of surgery at University Hospitals Rainbow Babies and Children's Hospital, according to police. Bullet fragments were removed from the boy's head, police said. He remains hospitalized in serious condition.

The shooting happened just after midnight early Monday.

The boy's mother told police she honked her horn at a white four-door Pontiac blocking the intersection at West 28th Street and Division Avenue, police said.

The car followed her as she drove around the Pontiac. One of two men inside the car opened fire at the woman's SUV on Interstate-90 near Dead Man's Curve, according to police.

A bullet hit the 4-year-old boy in the head. She pulled off on the East 55th exit and the boy was taken to the hospital.